Date: Fri, 23 Mar 2001 19:34:17 -0700 From: Brett Glass <brett@lariat.org> To: Terry Lambert <tlambert@primenet.com>, chat@FreeBSD.ORG Cc: support@primenet.com Subject: Re: ISP pooping out; any BSD friendly ISP out there???? Message-ID: <4.3.2.7.2.20010323193403.00dbf580@localhost> In-Reply-To: <200103240132.SAA05871@usr05.primenet.com>
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rahul.net At 06:32 PM 3/23/2001, Terry Lambert wrote: >Primenet, whom I have been very happy with for many years, and >have recommended without reservation to other people, resulting >in more than a few customers for them, was purchased a while >ago. It stayed the same great service after that, and I had no >real complaints. > >Everything was fine until very recently, when they decided to >retire their shell account services, and sell their existing >dialup user base to EarthLink, which does not off shell account >access, and is not UNIX friendly (they want to send me a CDROM >with a customized version of a browser and other Windows >programs, on the theory that I am either a Windows user, or am >short of coasters). > >Since I know that UUNET charges $9.00 in bulk for dialup points >of presence for month, I am totally mystified as to why they >are throwing away $11.00/month in revenue; it can't be costing >them that much to run their BSDi boxes on which their shell >accounts are located. > >This looks like an attempt to turn customers into a round of >funding, to me, since that is the only reason I can think of to >turn over an exisiting positive revenue stream. > >-- > >So... I am now looking for a BSD/non-fixed-access friendly ISP. > > >I need a shell account; minimally, it needs to be able to run >"elm", so I can get at my email from work or from home, without >it having to be POP'ed off, and become inaccessible, unless I >bring a work machine home or a home machine to work. In other >words, I need to be able to get to a single shell, regardless of >whether I am dialing up from home or the road, or telnet'ing in >from work or a borrowed machine. > >I would like it if I could run traceroute, nslookup, and whois, >as well, so that I can do directional diagnostics from another >point on the net, when I'm having local connectivity trouble >somewhere with a leased line link. It would be annoying, but I >can live without that, if I can just get a shell account with >elm access. > >The ISP should permit dialup access, and not care about specific >client type (e.g. I will sometimes use a BSD box, and sometimes >use another box, to dialin). In particular, it should not be >Windows-only (though I may use a Windows box, if that's all I >can borrow, when travelling, it can't be a requirement). > > >I'm looking for some DNS on top of that (but I could have NSI >or whoever do the mail forwarding for me, since almost all >registrars offer that service for free these days, anyway): > >The ISP should be willing to set up MX records and an entry for >a single account in a virtusertable so that mail to any address >in a domain ends up in a single maildrop,ie: > > tlambert@isp.com -> tlambert/.incoming-mail > xxx@lambert-org -> tlambert/.incoming-mail > terry@lambert.org -> tlambert/.incoming.mail > >(or wherever incoming mail is stored). > >Any suggesions welcome. > > > Terry Lambert > terry@lambert.org >--- >Any opinions in this posting are my own and not those of my present >or previous employers. > >To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org >with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message
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